{"id":8656,"date":"2026-02-12T12:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=8656"},"modified":"2026-02-12T12:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:44:19","slug":"an-old-lady-patient-who-was-very-hard-to-handle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=8656","title":{"rendered":"An old lady patient who was very hard to handle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"120\" data-end=\"161\"><strong data-start=\"120\" data-end=\"159\">The Dentist and the Elderly Patient<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"163\" data-end=\"261\">An elderly patient panicked at the dentist, clamping her mouth shut every time he tried to work.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"263\" data-end=\"386\">One day, the dentist had an idea. He asked his receptionist to sneak behind her and jab her with a pin when he was ready.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"388\" data-end=\"449\">Sure enough, she opened her mouth\u2014and he finished the work.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"451\" data-end=\"489\">\u201cSee? Not so bad,\u201d said the dentist.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"491\" data-end=\"586\">\u201cNot bad,\u201d she replied\u2026 \u201cbut I never expected a toothache to hurt\u00a0<em data-start=\"557\" data-end=\"579\">way down in my ass!\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f633.svg\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude33\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f602.svg\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude02\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Dentist and the Elderly Patient An elderly patient panicked at the dentist, clamping her mouth shut every time he tried to work. One day, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=8656\" title=\"An old lady patient who was very hard to handle\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8658,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8656\/revisions\/8658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}